It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.

He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?" Did I wonder? When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they're some kind of garbage, don't you know? Wonder dies.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer